Word: mold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Committee must first weigh the value of the training that the bill proposes. The part that UMT will take in the shaping of the individual trainee's personality is a comparatively minor matter. Certainly six months of boredom, frustration, and close order drill will mold the conscriptee into neither a "fine upstanding youth" nor a "neo-fascist" unless he had strong tendencies in one of those directions at the outset...
...Johnny Weissmuller story was more in the classic mold. The mother of Allene Gates, a 22-year-old California golfer, announced that Johnny and her daughter were going to be married, just as soon as Johnny and his third wife got their impending divorce...
...right mind would choose to live in the steaming, noisome port of Buenaventura. More than 350 inches of rain fall every year. Humidity is so high that shoes and clothing must be kept in "hot closets," where electric light bulbs dry the air, slow down blue mold. Malaria, typhoid and tuberculosis are endemic. Yet Buenaventura (pop. 15,000) is the busiest port in Colombia...
...creamy froth, the skies tumbled a blanket of white on the Eastern Seaboard the day after Christmas. At first it was mistaken for leftover egg-nog, but it was not long before the awful truth dawned upon the quaint villagers of New York and Boston. It was snow. The mold had finally been broken. The awful implications were soon abroad, and within a day the sign of the flying red horse had changed to an off-white. But the effects were even broader; James B. Conant switched to Calvert because he liked its flaky texture; there was talk that...
Greek-born Spyros Skouras, boss of 20th Century-Fox, is cast in the Homeric mold...